Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1887-10-26

dead of rest" Les-res'."
Miss LIZZIE DENNEY gave pleasant
party on Friday evening.
JACK FROST has two favored child
husking and cold fingers.
THE newly sown wheat was benefit
ed by the heavy rain of Thursday
night.
SIX HORSES for Pennington and
Lewes came down on the Tggert last
night.
Do NOT forget the fair of the ladies
of the Benevolent Society on Friday
evening.
We do not censure what we see, not
near so much as what we feel on our
pOcketbooks.
AFTER the people vote, the lawyers
smoke two for a quarter instead of
" Two-fer's."
THE young folks had a hop at the
Delaware House last night, the second
of the season.
GOSSIP is not a drink if it were
ladies would be carried home on shut
tiers continually.
G. A. Wick moved into his new
house corner Delaware and Frazier
streets on Monday.
ONE of the best arguments in favor
of plain living is that the simplest arti-
Giles of diet are the safest.
Mrs. GEO. D. COLLINS, has a gera-
MUM plant that stands six feet high,
and is full of buds for winter bloom.
LETTERS from Miss DIR. Kate G.
Woodruff and Rambler" intended
for this issue will appear in our next.
THE annual meeting of the Homeo-
pathic physicians, of Delaware, will
be held in Smyrna, on the 10th proximo.
SEE advertisement of Adams & Bro,
leading store in Wilmington, that
supplies many wants of the household.
THE agent here for Edison Bros, of
Philadelphia, bought ninety dozen eggs
from one merchant in Leipsic on Mon
day.
THE first car load of new corn from
the west arrived in Philadelphia on
Tuesday, graded No. yellow, and
sold for As cents.
WE are authorized to state that the
Rev. w. w. Taylor, Of Wilmington,
will fill the pulpit at the Presbyterian
church next Sunday.
HARRY L. COLLINS has resumed
housekeeping in his old home, the
house lately occupied by Mr.. Mentzer,
opposite the Smyrna House.
WHEN we feel disposed to tear and
pick our neighbors' character into
pieces, remembes that the skeleton in
our own closet has been picked too.
THE typos of the TIMES Office were
RECALLED on Saturday by several varie-
ties of excellent wedding cake from
Mrs. Wyatt, the mother Of the bride,
COB CORN is being shipped on the
steamerTygert in unusually large
quantities this season, the corn being in
very good condition for so early in the
fall.
THERE are some women, saws an
exchange, who wouldn't be happy in
a mansion in Heaven unless they could
clean house about once every three
months.
"WHY is a small boy like a woman ?"
said a certain man to his troublesome
wife. No response. Because he will
make man grown" said the conun-
drumist.
A DWELLING belonging to John
Armstrong, at Tayior's Bridge, was
destroyed by fire one night last week.
1t had been unoceupied for two or
three months.
THE planet Venus, which reaches
her greatest brilliancy on the morning
of the 28th, is plainly visible now in
broad daylight. Venus rises now
about $50 A. NJ.
PERSONS fond of fried oysters will
find them prepared in the best manner
at StevensOn's restaurant. At least
this was our opinion of box received
from him few days ago.
SAMUEL A. BENSON, who has rented
the rooms in the Johnson building for
merly occupied as a postOffice, arrived
yesterday from New Castle to put it in
order for a Candy Kitchen.
EDISON Bros, of Philadelphia, will
continue to have an agent at Smyrna
depot every Tuesday and Thursday to
pay the highest cash price for all kinds
of dressed poultry and eggs. T
OUR amateur artists land there are
not few of them find it very conve-
nient to have a store like that of John
WilkinsOn's, where everything is kept
that the ladies need in the painting
line.
A POTATO gTaces the window al
| Clements store that weighs two pounds
1t was grown by John T. Jerm&a, and
is known as the " Prolific" variety
Twenty-Five of them filled a peach
basket
THE rattle of hail for awhile during
] the rain of yesterday, was premOnitOry
of winter. On Monday they had q
driving snow storm throughout the
Northwestern States. and everything
frozen in.
L. A. COTTON is still selling all kind:
Of Dry Goods and Notions at cost
prices. You shOnld take advantage o.
these prices, as it will not be possible
to continue it much longer Sold fol
cash only. 4
TELEPHONE connection has been es
tablished between Smyrna and Dover
and the first message passed over the
wire from Denney's to Burton's drus
stores. where the phones are heated
on Saturday.
SOMETIMES in scrutinizing his bills
if a man says anything loud enough I,
be heard he is called An old bear,
and if he don't say anything he il
called poor, dear old soul +" too dea
to hear thunder"
SEE advertisement of Chas. II. Reg
lister & Co. 1t will be seen that in ad
dition TO the usual stock Of meats thej
keep supply Of sausage Of their owl
manufacture, and also pure leaf lard o
their own rendering.
THE charts for the floor for the enter
tainment at the Opera House on Tues
day and Wednesday evenings, can b
found at the drug stores Of J. r. Hot